Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial DesireColumbia University Press, 1992 - 244 Seiten At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply the products of patriarchal power relations over which they have no control. By mobilizing Foucault's theories of the history of sexuality Sedgwick re-fashions Feminism and Gay and Lesbian Studies to make it seem as though Feminism and Gay and Lesbian studies are ideally situated to continue those interventions into the history of sexuality begun by Foucault. |
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... things , but she doesn't know much about gay men ! " He was so right . During the writing of Between Men , I was very involved with lesbian - inflected feminist culture and critique , but I actually knew only one openly gay man . From ...
... things , but she doesn't know much about gay men ! " He was so right . During the writing of Between Men , I was very involved with lesbian - inflected feminist culture and critique , but I actually knew only one openly gay man . From ...
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... thing ( in this sense ) irrepressibly provincial about the young author of this book is manifest . But will it make sense if I describe that provincial- ity as not only a measure of her distance from the scenes of gay male creativity ...
... thing ( in this sense ) irrepressibly provincial about the young author of this book is manifest . But will it make sense if I describe that provincial- ity as not only a measure of her distance from the scenes of gay male creativity ...
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... thing , by making every instance of " meaning " mean something different . A trait can " mean " as an element in a semiotic system such as fashion ( " softness means pregnability " ) ; or anaclitically , it can " mean " its ...
... thing , by making every instance of " meaning " mean something different . A trait can " mean " as an element in a semiotic system such as fashion ( " softness means pregnability " ) ; or anaclitically , it can " mean " its ...
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... thing . To absent herself silently from each of them alike , and learn to manipulate them from behind this screen as objects or pure signifiers , as men do , is the numbing but effective lesson of her life . However , it is only a white ...
... thing . To absent herself silently from each of them alike , and learn to manipulate them from behind this screen as objects or pure signifiers , as men do , is the numbing but effective lesson of her life . However , it is only a white ...
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... thing to signify another . iii . Sex or History ? It will be clear by this point that the centrality of sexual questions in this study is important to its methodological ambitions , as well . I am going to be recurring to the subject of ...
... thing to signify another . iii . Sex or History ? It will be clear by this point that the centrality of sexual questions in this study is important to its methodological ambitions , as well . I am going to be recurring to the subject of ...
Inhalt
Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles | 21 |
Swan in Love The Example of Shakespeares Sonnets | 28 |
The Country Wife Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire | 49 |
A Sentimental Journey Sexualism and the Citizen of the World | 67 |
Toward the Gothic Terrorism and Homosexual Panic | 83 |
Murder Incorporated Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 97 |
Tennysons Princess One Bride for Seven Brothers | 118 |
Adam Bede and Henry Esmond Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female | 134 |
Homophobia Misogyny and Capital The Example of Our Mutual Friend | 161 |
Up the Postern Stair Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire | 180 |
Toward the Twentieth Century English Readers of Whitman | 201 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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